– Usage of the privately owned DC’s physical infrastructure for the consolidation of all three UK DC’s.īelow are the assumptions I felt had to be made. These will possibly change as I go further through all the other sections but so far these are the ones I felt were applicable: Rented DC’s kit needs to be fully migrated to the privately owned datacenter before Q1 2015 to ensure the contracts don’t need to be renewedīelow are the constraints I felt were detailed in the scenario. 5K 3rd party users will need to be able to gain access into the environment without any impact during the migration and consolidation Q: What other questions do you feel should be asked? There is however a possibility of internal consumption and charging for usage of the DC’s resources to other departments. Q: With the leasing out of the private level 4 suites in the future will there be a requirement to manage/host other companies processes and data within this infrastructure being designed?Ī: No there is currently no plan to do this due to security concerns and the number of compliancy regulations Safe and Legit need to maintain and fulfil. Q: Is there no way a minimal planned outage/downtime can be organised for the migration of the workloads due to the likely higher cost of equipment to ensure this near-zero downtime?Ī: The customer would prefer to try keep to the near-zero downtime and so it is agreed that after the conceptual design of the storage and the remaining components in the whole design further meetings can be held to discuss a balance between cost and the desire for near-zero downtime Also due to the probable need for auto-tiered storage to meet the customers requirements a new SAN with these capabilities is needed Q: Is there any capability of utilising the existing storage in the privately owned UK DC?Ī: Due to the consolidation and migration of the other UK DC’s and the current workloads in the privately owned DC a new SAN is a better option due to the SAN being 3 years old now and so it is more cost effective to purchase a new one.
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Note:This is a learning exercise for me so if you feel I’ve missed something or made a wrong decision then please write it in the comments and I’m more than happy (it was one of the main reasons I’m looking to do this series of postings) to discuss and I’ll amend the design accordingly if it makes sense and hopefully I along with other people reading these postings will learn from it and become better.Īs I said there probably would be and which is something I feel is really important when doing real world designs is trying to think of as many questions around a customer requirements so that you can ensure you have their requirements recorded correctly and that they aren’t vague.The additional questions and the answers to them are listed below: If you missed the posting where I detailed the mock scenario you can read it here Below is my thoughts, additional questions I felt needed to be asked/things to be clarified and the Design decisions,justifications and impacts due to these decisions for the Safe and Legit Storage design.
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